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Download full textSweet, Pat – 1970
The purpose of this study was to test the learning ability of a class of second graders in a mining camp in Southwest Virginia in the heart of Appalachia. On the basis of family income, 20 second-grade children (12 boys and 8 girls) were divided into 2 groups--poor and non-poor. The children were tested during the third 6 weeks and again during…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Opportunities, Grade 2
Jerry, Laura; Lutkus, Anthony – 2003
This report provides selected results from the 2002 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for Virginia's public-school students at grades 4 and 8. Since 1992, reading has been assessed in four different years at the state level (at grade 4 in 1992 and 1994, and at both grades 4 and 8 in 1998 and 2002). Virginia participated in all of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 8
O'Sullivan, Christine Y.; Jerry, Laura; Ballator, Nada; Herr, Fiona – 1997
In 1990, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) included a Trial State Assessment (TSA); for the first time in the NAEP's history, voluntary state-by-state assessments were made. The sample was designed to represent the 8th grade public school population in a state or territory. In 1996, 44 states, the District of Columbia, Guam,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Educational Change, Grade 8
